He Gave Her Strawberries, Gave Me Hives (Ford and Sylvia) novel Chapter 89

Chapter 13

Desmond sneered, his eyes as dark and cold as a winter lake. He gripped Stella’s chin tightly. “You abandoned me when I was at my lowest, and you have the

udacity to say you love me?”

I’ll give you one last chance. Are you going to tell me everything yourself, or should I have it investigated?”

With that, Desmond shoved Stella away and looked down on her.

With red–rimmed eyes, Stella crawled back and knelt before Desmond, banging her head on the floor and begging for mercy. “Desmond, please forgive me! I now I was wrong!”

osing patience, Desmond glanced at the devastated and hateful Mia beside him. “She’s all yours. I want to know everything she did to Celeste.”

If you can’t get it all out of her, or if you miss a single detail, you can stay in Africa and never come back!” Desmond’s expression turned vicious, making Mia

remble.

he nodded frantically, then stood up, grabbed Stella by the hair, and began dragging her back into the hospital room.

oon, heart–wrenching screams and the sound of the two women cursing each other echoed from the room.

I didn’t take long for Mia to get all the information out of her.

ooking at the long list of her transgressions, Desmond’s heart ached with a pain he’d never known.

very single time he had chosen Stella over Celeste, Stella had immediately sent Celeste a taunting message.

hotos of him and Stella in an embrace, accompanied by vulgar, insulting captions.

Celeste, so what if you took care of him for five years? All I had to do was pretend to be hurt, and he abandoned you in a heartbeat.”

Celeste, Desmond loves me. You could throw yourself at him for the rest of your life, and he will never love you back.”

Celeste, did you enjoy the live show?”

very word was like a needle piercing his heart, leaving behind a dense, throbbing pain.

emembering every time he had left Celeste behind, the way her gaze had shifted from disappointment and sadness to a final, numb emptiness, his heart felt as it were being ripped open, the pain suffocating him.

le was the one who had pushed her away, step by step, until she was out of his world completely.

esmond was consumed with regret. He was going to make Stella pay.

esmond hired a few homeless men to brutally humiliate her, then had the photos and videos packaged and sold to various websites.

le personally destroyed what was left of the Winslow family’s business empire and had Stella locked away, forcing her to watch the videos of her own umiliation on a loop, every single day.

tella was tortured until she went insane. She started to self harm, to attempt suicide. But every time she got close to succeeding. Desmond’s men would save

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he was eventually sent to a psychiatric hospital, where she was still forced to watch the videos of her humiliation day after day,

Desmond wanted her to live a life worse than death.

is for Mia, for her part in helping Stella bully Celeste, she was sent back to a desolate city in Africa and put in charge of developing corporate partnerships there.

he would never be allowed to come back in this lifetime.

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Chapter 13

Grandpa no longer interfered with Desmond’s search for Celeste. But too much time had passed, and he couldn’t find a single useful clue.

In the blink of an eye, six months had gone by.

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